Bowl Island (Antarctica)
| Bowl Island | ||
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| Waters | Amundsen Bay , ( Kosmonautensee ) | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 9 ′ S , 50 ° 50 ′ E | |
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Bowl Island (from English bowl , bowl, cauldron ) is an island off the coast of the East Antarctic Enderbyland . It is located immediately south of Crohn Island at the head of Amundsen Bay .
Participants of a team of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions led by the German-Australian geologist Peter Wolfgang Israel Crohn (1925-2015) sighted and named the island in 1956. It is named after a bowl-shaped depression in the center of the island.
Web links
- Bowl Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bowl Island on geographic.org (English)